The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-30

Further Evidence.
WAsHINGToN, April 29.-The petition
of the Union Pacific Railway Company
To the Interstate Commerce Casnmis
sion. asking Ia be relieved from the OF
Grafton of the fourth section of TIA,
Interstate Commerce law. was filed
with Secretary Mosely to-day. and 1
/ copy of the document was sent To No
bile by the same messenger who brought
! il here. TO Ice there lai1 before TN. Com,
/ mission.
AT MOBILE
MOBILE. ALA. April 29.-The Inter
State Commerce Commission arrived in
this city at 2:2O this afternoon and met
at o'clock in the United States Court
room. Representative men were pres
ent from Mobile. Selma, Greenville.
Huntsville, Tuscaloosa. Brewton. Hart
selle and other places i'm Alabama. and
from Meridian and Aberdeen. Miss. Col.
W. Butler Duncan. President. and II. =.
Depew. Traffic Manager of the Mobile
and Ohio Railway. testified a. To the ne
ct-1sity of the suspension of the fourth
section of the law in the case of that
road
Depew's testimony VI fnierrupted by
frequent questions from members of the
Commission. To a question relative to
the rates ON his road Mr. Depew re-
pliei: You ask ,lo We charge more for
a short haul than for a long one ont of
East St. Louis to Cairo: Yes but we
have met competition at Cairo and have
not charged more than the Illinois Rail
way commission has prescribed. though
when we charge less. that body has not
molested us.
Mr.. Norrison-''I see there il "a grad
ual rise of rates from East st. Louis Im-
til you reach Cairo where | see no rate.
Mr.. Depew-'We meet competition AT
that point"
Mr.. Morrison. Suppose the shipment
Is from East st. Louis to Mobile, does the
shipper get the Illinois rates
Mr.. Depew-" He does now. that is
since the first of April. Formerly he
was charged six cents Il barrel higher
| would add that We could not possibly
rates in Illinois because of the
short distance of haul. hut while we
might charge certain rates from "A point
near East st. Louis To Mobile. we cannot
make the same charge to all local points
in this Southern territory.
COMPETITIVE POINTS.
The average rate from ST. Louis Ia in
terInediate points on different kind of
freights was then stated and Mr.. De
pew continued: The trade il divided
INTO two classes, that which goes To com
petitive and that which goes to non-com-
points.
When asked To give competitive points
he named Mobile, Enterprise, Meridian.
Iauderdale, Artesia. Tupelo, West
Point, Corinth. jackson. Reeves, Hum
boldt. Union City. Columbus. Cairo.
Percy and East ST. Louis. adding that
the tonnage of his road went to
those places. Attention being called to
the rate of the road and the fact that a
large number of stations were not al
planned that the sheet Is connected az
,ording the Interstate Commerce law
under which the road is working.
Mr.. Bragg said that if the Mobile and
Ohio Company gave special rates To
he would like to know |
Why the rate on barrels was fifty cents
rom East st. Louis to Mobile. seventy |
'ents To Meridian, and 81 Is To IA number |
If places Intermediate The rate at Mo- |
pile was shown 10y Mr.. Depew To be gov |
'rned by the Mississippi River rate to
New Orleans.
Mr.. Bragg wanted To know whether
he Louisville, New Orleans and Texas
Dad did not protect the Mobile and Ohio
rom competition with the river.
Mr.. Depew thought il did 10 some ex-
ent.
Mr. Bragg How do you reach this
ate of competition of steamers: Don't
hey keep their rates secret:
Yes. the Anchor Line furnishes a
flank to shippers. filled in with nominal
ates. but charge a. much lower as they
'lease, making specially low rates to
arge shippers"
Mr.. Bragg-"IiOw do YOU make your
ates conform To these secret rates =
Sometimes We cannot and the boats
ct the freight"
Mr.. Bragg-"So you just go shooting
round in the dark
Sometimes.
COTTON RATE
ut of Mobile to New York were next
tated as follows:
Mobile to New York - p; Meridian
nd Enterprise To New York. 81 -; fro 4
,berdeen $i.0J; from Artesia about tine
anne: from Corinth. $3.50.
The Commissioners Were informed that
Iemphis controlled the rates at competi-
i've points by her low all rail rate to
lew York and to Corinth.
Ocean rates from Mobile and New Or
eans to New York were then touched
pom. Mr.. Depew did not profess much
with this branch of the
ubject. He thought the rate from Mo
lie To New York was controlled by the
all rate from Mobile To New Orleans
nd the sea rate thence to destination. /
IL Was asked also what amount of cot
IN was sent from Mobile over this route.
H. said il was between 2Oo1 and 300
ales.
Mr.. Bragg-''Iou compete here with
he ocean rates. and make a rate Of forty
ents hundred. and Vet Of all the cot
IN brought here from the interior you